Improvement in buckwheat-scouring machines



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Buckwheat-scouring Machines.

Patented Aug.18,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN KLAER, OF MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKWHEAT-SCOURING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,144, dated August18, 1874; application filed February 21. 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN KLAER, of Milford,Pike county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a Buckwheat-ScouringMachine, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is toscour buckwheat with emery or itsequivalent by the combination of a shaking bolting-reel, A, having itsbearings in the frame 0, which is suspended by steel springs or a a wandshaken endwise by the lever L on fulcrum M, and Worked by rod K,receiving its motion from crank J 011 end of fan-shaft I. The reel isturned by band N passing around fan-shaft I and over pulley B. The sides0 of the reel A slide out of grooves in the ribs R, and are covered withemery on the inside. The grain enters the feel through spout D, isscoured by the emery on the sides 0, and separated from the tailingsthrough screen E into hopper F, and passes down through tube 1?, Whereit is cleansed by a blast from fan H. The tailings are carried off bytrough Gr.

It will be evident that quartzsand or ground glass, or flint, can beused in lieu of emery, and that the polishing material can be appliedwith glue, copal varnish, or cement, and that all other kinds of graincan be scoured and cleaned by this machine.

I claim as my invention The combination, in a shaking revolving reel, A,of the sides 0, coated with emery or its equivalent, and the screen E,as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN KLAER. Witnesses:

JOHN M. YOUNG, CORNELIUS W. BULL.

